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France Tachinidae Xysta holosericea
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Fance, Dordogne. Damp clearfell area in deciduous woodland.
4.vi.2012. Size 9mm.
On Leucanthemum vulgare (Oxeye Daisy). Ectophasia crassipennis and small Phasia were also present.
Xysta holosericea - a robust Phasiinae with few bristles.
Jorge posted the first photo on Diptera.info for this species just last month.
http://www.dipter...d_id=47574

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Show off Grin very well done though - a really unusual tachinid. Very Phasia x Ectophaia in form.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.
 
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The male genitalia are peculiarly asymmetric:

you can see this in the second picture


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